White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...encounters with runaways. Fugitive slaves routinely lay out in their own neighborhood, where folks could be relied on for food and support. Food rations to slaves were hardly generous, so...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...American literature’s inclusion in the American literary canon and actively supported Native scholars, arguing that no one can have a competent understanding of the history, or literatures, of the Americas,...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...leading to US and British decisions to abolish the trade of enslaved Africans Part 4: Davis explores decreasing support for the trade of enslaved Africans and impacts of the French...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...several days after the election. Nossiter, a normally sharp-eyed contributor on southern topics, focused on the low levels of white support for Obama in several Deep South states, and he...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...restoration campaign, and the work is supported by the Longleaf Alliance, an organization based at Auburn University and created in 1995 to coordinate cooperation between private landowners, forest industries, government...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...Gaines's novel reveals a "literature of the ethnic solidarity bred through the history of oppression and discrimination, supported by the network of the traditional manners knitting up each and every...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...have expressed frustration over the location of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Many leaders decided not to donate money to the convention, while still supporting the president's...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...for racial violence. Throughout, Clegg emphasizes themes that illuminate the wider history of Jim Crow lynching. He reaffirms how the Rowan lynchings served to support the implementation of segregation and...